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-which game of thrones family would you want to belong to? -do you think zombies could actually ever happen? -when you were little what scared you? -shorts or pants? -best era in history? -do you have a favorite painting or sculpture? -coco ice t's wife...hot or scary? -what is something that is overrated in NYC? -if you could change your first name to something else, what would you pick? -camping fest or city fest?
- Dorne. Those women are fi-yaaaaaa. - No. At least not in the "undead" sense. One day there could be a virus that makes people eat each other, though - Old people and the Reverend Al Sharpton - Uh, is it hot or cold? - Bronze age. - Mona Lisa.................j/k. That thing is dull and the size of a piece of computer paper. I thought Michelangelo's David was really impressive when I saw it, I also thought Van Gogh's museum was my favorite collection of art that I'd ever seen. - Sober flanzo: Scary. Drunk flanzo: Scary. - You mean besides the Yankees? NOTHING!!! WE DA BEST!!! j/k I think one thing people overrate is how mean the city is. I always go out of my way to give people directions when they're clearly lost, I try to be polite and courteous to older people and not backhand every little sh*t that slams into me because their parents think a NYC sidewalk in midtown is a f*cking playground.
I mean, don't get me wrong I know there are tons of sh*tty people here, but I think it's not at a higher rate than other places, I just think that there are so many due to the overall size of the population in NYC that it's inevitable you run into some of them. I've actually gotten into shoving matches with scummy homeless dudes and NO NO WORD!!! addicts on subways for harassing tourists. I can't stand that sh*t, and I know most NYers feel that way too.
And you know what's overrated? Pies n' Thighs. F*ck that place. - LeRoy (which is what my Dad wanted to name me) - Tough call. Roo is the only real camping I've done at a festival, so it's hard to say. I love the Roo community, but don't expect all camping festivals are like that. City fests are nice because I can sleep in my bed after a day of concerts.
How do football fans in NYC decide who to like between the Jets and Giants?
Well, it's hard to say. Historically, Jets/Mets and Yankees/Giants have always gone together. Obviously that's not the case for every NY-area sports fan, but generally speaking that's how it splits up. Mets/Jets rely on spurts of success and they do it kind of in "rockstar" fashion. Mets sucked, then had their '69 title (seemingly out of nowhere) with a bunch of nobodies, a "working class" team, so a lot of the fans that were left teamless after the Giants and Dodgers left went to the Mets. Then, since the Jets played games in Shea Stadium until the early 80's, Mets/Jets basically became Long Island's teams.
I think NY sports fans are split into 3rds for baseball/football. A little more than 1/3 are die-hard Yanks/Giants. A little less than 1/3 are die-hard Mets/Jets. Then there's a 3rd that just kind of floats from one side to the other depending on who is doing better. That's why the Jets were ZOMG SO SO SO SO SO SO popular when Rex first came, because he was new and exciting and that 1/3 of fans who don't really have an allegiance picked the Jets. Now, after last season, that 3rd is firmly back in the Giants' camp.
I know people that do this, I've called them on it, and they reply with the "I root for both" comment. I'm sorry, but that's just not allowed. You pick a side. If you don't care, just say you don't care. Just say "I like to root for a winner," it's not like we can't already see that. But when I scroll through a guy's FB photos and see a year-by-year breakdown where he's switching teams every other season? Bush league.
Anyway, most of us just go with what our dads rooted for. My Dad's family were die-hard NY Giants (baseball) fans, but when they left they sat in limbo until the Mets came. Then my Dad was 13, and a man by the name of Joseph William "Joe Willie" Namath came to the Jets, over the Giants. That single act had a huge impact on my dad's generation of sports fans, and their generation was pretty evenly split. You had the stalwart Giants, and the upstart Jets, and the Jets were better at that time. They won a lot of fans, then lost them in their awful 70s years, then won them back with solid 80s, then lost them in the early 90s, then got them in the late 90s, then lost them during the Mangini years, then got them and lost them in the Rex years. The Mets are very much the same way. The two franchises mirror each other quite a bit, until recently when the Jets got a great owner the Mets got stuck with the two sh*tbags they have now.
So, Mets/Jets and Yanks/Giants, 1/3 of the fans are flimsy and fair-weather, and our dads shape our rooting interests.
The peregrine falcon talk reminded me of a book series called Animorphs that I read as kid. One character got trapped per mantle into the body of a red-tailed hawk and had to adapt to a hawks life/diet lol
02/08 Tool 02/11 Jeff Mangum 02/17 of Montreal 02/29 Blind Pilot 03/31 The Naked & The Famous 05/14 M83 and I Break Horses 05/19 Flaming Lips, Young the Giant, Dawes and AWOLNATION 06/07 Bonnaroo 2012!!! 06/13 Roger Waters 07/28 Toadies
You've suddenly come into an ungodly amount of money. What's the Weirdest thing you do for yourself? Do for your family? Do for charity?
- Travel the US and watch a game from every major sport home arena (MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS...NFL would take more than one season, but I'd do that too). - I'd pay off my brother's student loans and give him a large sum to start an environmental urban planning firm. I'd buy my parents a house in Cape Cod and tell my dad to stop f*cking working and relax for once. - I already do a lot of charity-related stuff and volunteer work, to be honest. The illness that has impacted my life the most is breast cancer (grandmother died from it, three aunts have fought and beat it), but I feel like if I had a lot of money it should go to a lesser known illness that doesn't get the funding cancer does. So, I'd probably just have people send me causes and spread money out over a couple of them.
I was too young to remember the hurricane, but my mom said she just sat with me in a closet and read to me by candlelight and I was fine. I'd say the rogue wave was scariest.
We were 6 for Hurricane Bob, that's old enough to remember! I remember it! I was going to correct you and say that you were alive for Hurricane Gloria too, but apparently I was 3 months old, and you were still in the womb for that. Youngin'!
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
I was too young to remember the hurricane, but my mom said she just sat with me in a closet and read to me by candlelight and I was fine. I'd say the rogue wave was scariest.
We were 6 for Hurricane Bob, that's old enough to remember! I remember it! I was going to correct you and say that you were alive for Hurricane Gloria too, but apparently I was 3 months old, and you were still in the womb for that. Youngin'!
I have no idea why I thought this, but I always assumed you were a year younger than I am. I have no idea why.
And I vaguely remember Bob (I was 5, btw), but not well. I remember being outside and the sky being almost green, and it being eerily quiet. I was on Cape Cod for the hurricane, that much I remember.
-do you like pickles? -has a movie or tv show ever made you cry? what about a concert? -when you were little did you used to say i can't wait to be a grownup or did you wish to be a kid forever? -when you die what do you think happens? -if you could pick any area in NYC to live in, rent not an issue, where would you chose? -when was the last time you dressed up in a costume? what was it? -hahahahaa you used to wear earrings right? how long was that phase? diamonds or hoops? -do you collect anything? -what is your special talent?
You've suddenly come into an ungodly amount of money. What's the Weirdest thing you do for yourself? Do for your family? Do for charity?
- Travel the US and watch a game from every major sport home arena (MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS...NFL would take more than one season, but I'd do that too). - I'd pay off my brother's student loans and give him a large sum to start an environmental urban planning firm. I'd buy my parents a house in Cape Cod and tell my dad to stop f*cking working and relax for once. - I already do a lot of charity-related stuff and volunteer work, to be honest. The illness that has impacted my life the most is breast cancer (grandmother died from it, three aunts have fought and beat it), but I feel like if I had a lot of money it should go to a lesser known illness that doesn't get the funding cancer does. So, I'd probably just have people send me causes and spread money out over a couple of them.
Breast cancer survivor myself so gotta say I love you! Keep up the good work.
Here's a good one my friends and I have gotten into serious discussion about: Would you rather date a girl who was a HUGE sports fan, but was way into the Yankees/Pats/whatever other teams you hate, or a girl that didn't like sports whatsoever. All other things being equal of course.
What is your most embarrassing childhood memory you're willing to share with us?
Are there any photos of you wearing parachute pants? (I have a hunch about this one) If yes, please post.
I got pants'd in front of my entire grade at an assembly when I went up to speak at an assembly about bullying. weenie'n'balls for all to behold. I have quick hands so it was only half a second, but yeah that was pretty bad.
Parachute pants? Nah, my dad wouldn't allow those in our house. Although I did force my mom to buy my a pair of spandex bike shorts with a sweet orange racing stripe when we were in Cape Cod when I was like 3 or 4.
-do you like pickles? -has a movie or tv show ever made you cry? what about a concert? -when you were little did you used to say i can't wait to be a grownup or did you wish to be a kid forever? -when you die what do you think happens? -if you could pick any area in NYC to live in, rent not an issue, where would you chose? -when was the last time you dressed up in a costume? what was it? -hahahahaa you used to wear earrings right? how long was that phase? diamonds or hoops? -do you collect anything? -what is your special talent?
- Quack no. - Movies and shows absolutely. I think I admitted this once in the chatroom whilst blackout drunk, but I cried at the movie The Sixth Man (starring Marlon Wayans). But yeah, I've cried at movies/watching tv shows. I haven't ever cried at a concert tho. - Don't understand the question, I still am a little kid. - I decay and people get my life insurance policy. - The West Village is realllllly nice, but a lot of people there are summers breezey. I might get a huge loft in a nice area of Brooklyn. - Umm..welp, I wore a little kid's superman costume to an EDM concert for $50 like 3 months ago. - Both, and I had them pierced in like 7th grade and wore them into college. I also used to get uptown fades at the barbershop on 187 and Belmont, so I had to look gully gully so people wouldn't cut me. - I have about 10,000 baseball cards (which includes a complete complete seasons from Topps), I started collecting shot glasses when I was like 13 or 14 because I thought "SICKKKKK SHOT GLASSES DRINKING ALCOHOL I'M SO COOOOL," but now it's kind of cool to see all the places I've been. My mom collects pottery, I collect shot glasses. Seems appropriate. - Babysitting 50 year old men, I'm great at it.
- Hah yeah, a lot. Shattered an ankle when two football helmets sandwiched it, broke my nose twice (once in a fight, once catching an elbow playing basketball), broke all my fingers except for my thumbs and left index finger, broke my hand, broke my foot and never had it diagnosed (so my foot healed incorrectly and has this weird bump in it). Bonus points for tearing both rotator cuffs, right MCL and ligaments in my right ankle.
Favorite athlete of all time is really tough. I was enamored by Joe Namath when I was growing up, I worshiped guys like Patrick Ewing, Mike Richter/Mark Messier, even Dwight Gooden (*tear*).
I guess I can only answer this a few times. My favorite athlete for one of my own teams is Curtis Martin. I've met him a few times, and each time he spent 10-15 minutes talking with me when it was obvious he's incredibly busy. Probably the nicest person (not just athlete) I've ever met, and just a consistent and positive presence in my young sports fandom.
My favorite athlete to watch that wasn't on one of my teams? Pre-NBA Lockout Shawn Kemp.
But if you want my grand champion athlete, the athlete I would put up against other people's favorite athlete, so to speak, it's Muhammad Ali. I've watched almost every one of Ali's fights (some in horrible, grainy black & white footage), and it's rare that greatness like his comes around in any walk of life, not just athletics. His mix of mental, physical and emotional strength is pretty incredible. And for a heavyweight to dip and duck as quickly as he could (to the point his opponents sometimes fell like a chair was pulled out from under them) it's basically unfair.
Here's a good one my friends and I have gotten into serious discussion about: Would you rather date a girl who was a HUGE sports fan, but was way into the Yankees/Pats/whatever other teams you hate, or a girl that didn't like sports whatsoever. All other things being equal of course.
By "didn't like sports whatsoever" do you mean she hates them but tolerates them? Or is she one of those women who hates them and wants her man to hate them too?
If it's the former I wouldn't mind, if it's the latter I would.
Do you speak any other languages besides English? Have they ever been useful?
Did you kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland?
Could you understand the locals in the small town pubs? (I had a really hard time)
Have you ever watched a rugby game? Did you like it?
What are your thoughts on the Senkaku Island dispute? Do you think it will evolve into a military engagement between Japan and China?
- I don't speak any really, but I understand Italian since I grew up with my relatives speaking it all the time "around the babies" (anyone not of drinking age...so like 15 and under) so we didn't know the awful sh*t they were saying. - I did, my mom is afraid of heights and had a panic attack, which was funny. It's supposed to give you the gift of gab, which people have told me my entire life I already have, so I basically kissed a slimy rock in the rain in order to see my mom crawl on her hands and knees around the top of the castle. - Yeah. I'm Irish and I've been around people with brogues all my life so the only place it was really an issue was Cork (when they got really sh*faced) and Dingle (again, when they got really sh*tfaced), but to be fair they had an equal time understanding my slurred NY accent apparently. I also live in a very Irish neighborhood in the Bronx, so when I go out to the bar at least half the people are from Ireland. It's pretty cool, until I try to hit on one of the Scottish bartenders...even the Irish people don't know what the f*ck they're saying. - Yes, and yes. I played football, so any old-fashioned mano-a-mano feats of strength is fine by me. Fordham had a team and they tried to get me to play after watching a pick-up football game, but I went to a practice and my knee buckled and I said f*ck that. I wasn't about to get another surgery so I could empty kegs at the rugby house and break things with my head. - Whoa there Brian Williams, throwing a hardball question out there.
I don't care, the US just better stay out of it. I could understand if the islands had some historical or holy meaning to the Chinese people, but they're just islands that no one gave a flying f*ck about until it was found out that they had natural gas. They just sat there, so I say let them sit there, make them their own nation of nothing and tell China and Japan to go back and play nice in the sandbox.
It's not until November, so I have to keep him single for a month. He's done a great job of it for the seven years I've know him, so I'm not too worried.
-what is the dorkiest thing you are into? -do you ever eat fast food? -are there some liquors you won't drink? -when was the last time you drove a car? -do you believe in ghosts? -what is the scariest movie you have ever watched? -did you ever have a myspace account? -have you ever been skiing? -what is the best present you have ever received? -tell me a joke.
-what is the dorkiest thing you are into? -do you ever eat fast food? -are there some liquors you won't drink? -when was the last time you drove a car? -do you believe in ghosts? -what is the scariest movie you have ever watched? -did you ever have a myspace account? -have you ever been skiing? -what is the best present you have ever received? -tell me a joke.
- Comic books. I used to read them on the buses to football games, but no one made fun of me because I would fracture their sternum with my head. - Rarely, but if I do I go all in. Wendy's is by far my favorite, though. - Vodka, for the most part. I drank it like it was water in high school and early in college, then had one reallllllllllly bad experience and now the smell makes me instantly nauseous. - Like a month ago when I was visiting my parents. I think this is weird, but I have a much harder time getting re-acclimated to automatic transmission cars than manual transmission cars. I have a truck at home that's stick shift and I hop in it and I'm fine, but if I drive my moms car I feel all out of sorts for some reason. - Not really. - I don't know the name of it, but me and my friends would rent movies based solely on the covers on the boxes. One of them was insane and these kids went into an abandoned house that was like the gateway to hell or something. It was pretty scary but also hilariously bad quality. But you did get to see early-80s horror movie bush that made 12-year-old flanzo nearly pass out. - Haha yes. Then my mom made me delete it because I was becoming friends with too many girls from the school she taught in. - Yeah....a lot. I also snowboard, but skiing is easier since I learned to do it when I was so young (4 or 5). - For my high school graduation my parents took me and my best friends to Cancun, which at the time was the greatest thing to ever happen to me. But I'd say the coolest gift (or the one I will care about the most in 30 years) is when I graduated college my Dad gave me this box of stuff from my grandfather, stuff from WWI and WWII (he was a Navy pilot, so he has some really cool sh*t), the flag they put over his casket, pictures of him holding me in the hospital when I was born (he had a heart attack the day before I was born, and died a week later), letters he wrote to my grandma when he was overseas at war, letters he wrote my dad about me (in the months leading up to me being born). Just a lot of stuff that means a lot to me since I never really got to know him, but everyone tells me I'm so much like him.
- Okay, so a guy walks into a bar clearly sh*tfaced, wobblying, slurring his words and glassy-eyed. He saunters over to the bar and calls over the bartender. The bartender tells him "look bud, you clearly don't need any more booze, why don't you call it a night and head home."
The drunkard replies "Ah, f*ck that, I'll make a bet, and if I win it and prove to you I'm not drunk you have to serve me!"
"Hmm...okay, what's the bet?" asked the Bartender
"Well," the drunkard begins as he reaches over the bar and grabs a glass. He walks to the other end of the bar and places the glass on the bar, "see that glass way over there? I will bet you $100 that I can piss from here, into that glass, and not spill a drop. If I win, you pay me $100 and serve me a drink, if you win, I pay you $100 and you'll never see me again."
The bartender sizes up the drunk and thinks to himself There is no f*cking chance he pulls this off.... "Okay, deal."
So, the drunk unzips, and lets fly. He pisses on the bar, on the floor, on the ceiling, on the walls, on the bottles of booze, sh*t, he pisses on the bartender himself. He pisses everywhere there is to piss in that bar except the cup.
"HA! I win! I'll take my $100 you drunk idiot, and will be kindly asking you to leave! No drinks for you at this bar, no sir!"
The drunk is beaming. He pulls out a piss-soaked $100 bill and slaps it on the bar, zips back up and begins to walk towards a back corner of the bar. The bartender grabs him and says "Hey! You lost the bet! You gotta go, where do you think you're going!?"
"Just one moment. See, I bet you $100 that I could piss into that glass, plus the drink, so let's call it $105. Well, I bet that guy in the corner $500 that I could piss on your bar, I could piss on your floor, I could piss on your booze, and I could even piss on you, and not only would you not be mad, but you'd be happy about it. I'll just be collecting my winnings and be on my way."
What artist(s) that the board generally loves do you dislike?
What artist(s) that the board generally hates do you like?
I was really hoping to avoid this question, so damn you glennron.
- I don't like Mumford & Sons or the Avett Brothers. I put them both here because I know some people don't like them, either, so I figure this will confuse at least the majority of the board. Oh, and Wilco. They suck.
- Hip hop in general? Can that be an answer? I've tried for 2 years to get an ongoing hip-hop dialogue and get nothing in return, but we can get 50 pages on Skrillex. So, everyone needs to stop hating hip-hop, and if you don't hate hip-hop stop ignoring it. Think of it as a kid, if you ignore your kid every day for two years, he's going to think you hate him. Also, Skrillex. (Which I've already alluded to in drunken confessions since the Made In America outed me as a closet UNTZ lover).
Post by iamthehorn on Sept 25, 2012 13:18:27 GMT -5
Any favorite fine art?
What's your most prized new possession (i.e. no family heirlooms)?
If you could eliminate one natural process or law of nature what would it be? Be specific.
If you had a friend who was born deaf but had a magic surgery to fully restore his/her hearing, what album would you play on the way home from the hospital?
Related question: If you had a friend who just moved here from a Soviet bloc country, what breakfast cereal would you serve them?
but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal. 
